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[NCRadioMan]

Originally Posted by NCRadioMan

Yeah. UFC 92 should be off the chart! That is a stacked card if there ever was one. Don't forget about the TUF Finals this Saturday!

The Ultimate Fighter 8” Lightweight Final
Phillipe Nover vs. Efrain Escudero

“The Ultimate Fighter 8” Light Heavyweight Final
Ryan Bader vs. Vinicius Magalhaes

Jason MacDonald vs. Wilson Gouveia
Anthony Johnson vs. Kevin Burns
Junie Allen Browning vs. Dave Kaplan
Krzysztof Soszynski vs. Shane Primm
Eliot Marshall vs. Jules Bruchez
Kyle Kingsbury vs. Tom Lawlor
Shane Nelson vs. George Roop
Roli Delgado vs. John Polakowski

Good fights! Gouveia over MacDonald, so quickly, was quite the surprise.

Junie claims his actions on TUF were somewhat of an act to get noticed but I find it disgusting that someone can act like that and be rewarded for it.

Yahoo! Sports has released the list of the Top 10 North American Pay-Per-View buyrates for 2008 and it's clear that pro wrestling no longer dominates the PPV market. In fact, only 1 pro wrestling event broke the top 10 (WrestleMania 24) and it featured professional boxer Floyd Mayweather as one of its top attractions.

Here's the top 10 list:

1. Boxing: Oscar De La Hoya vs. Manny Pacquiao, Dec. 6, 1,250,000
2. UFC: Brock Lesnar vs. Randy Couture, Nov. 15, 1,010,000
3. Wrestling: WrestleMania, Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Paul “Big Show” Wight, March 30, 670,000
4. UFC: Georges St. Pierre vs. Jon Fitch/Lesnar vs. Heath Herring, Aug. 9, 625,000
5. UFC: Lesnar vs. Frank Mir, Feb. 2, 600,000
6. UFC: Quinton Jackson vs. Forrest Griffin, July 5, 540,000
7. UFC: St. Pierre vs. Matt Serra, April 19, 530,000
8. Boxing: Felix Trinidad vs. Roy Jones Jr., Jan. 19, 500,000
9. UFC: Chuck Liddell vs. Rashad Evans, Sept. 6, 480,000
10. UFC: B.J. Penn vs. Sean Sherk/Tito Ortiz vs. Lyoto Machida, May 24, 475,000

Brock Lesnar’s 2.2 million buys over three fights made him the most-watched PPV fighter in 2008. His total was the second highest total in UFC history, trailing only Tito Ortiz, who did 2.25 million in headlining three events in 2006. And this is why Lesnar gets the attention he does and why he was promoted so hard.

Here is a great article on Lesnar: http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/arti...2562490078.txt